Orbital rotation without orbital angular momentum: Mechanical action of the spin part of the internal energy flow in light beams

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3563-3571

  Angelsky, O V ^a   Bekshaev, A Ya ^b   Maksimyak, P P ^a   Maksimyak, A P ^a   Hanson, S G ^c   Zenkova, C Yu ^a  

^a CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBES;

ENERGY FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FOCUSED BEAMS; INTERNAL ENERGIES; LIGHT BEAM; LIGHT FIELDS; MECHANICAL ACTION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ORBITAL MOTIONS; ORBITAL ROTATIONS; POLARIZATION DEGREE; SPIN FLOW; TIGHT FOCUSING; TRANSVERSE ENERGY; TWO-BEAM INTERFERENCE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84857339808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003563     Document Type: Article

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